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Book review: Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better, by Lyn Alden

posted: April 6, 2025

tl;dr: A somewhat more level-headed view of Bitcoin than you get from the Bitcoin maxis...

Is the Bitcoin network secure enough to launch the U.S.A.’s nuclear missiles?

posted: April 13, 2025

tl;dr: No it isn’t, and that has implications for a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve...

Book review: Swamp Story, by Dave Barry

posted: April 6, 2025

tl;dr: Florida man writes fictional story about Florida Men and a Florida Woman...

Movie review: Mickey 17

posted: March 23, 2025

tl;dr: A dark sci-fi comedy that should appeal to a younger generation of sci-fi enthusiasts...

The Actual Origin of SARS-CoV-2

posted: March 22, 2025

tl;dr: The paper that should have been published in March 2020 instead of The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2...

Four rides for Arizona Bike Week

posted: March 12, 2025

tl;dr: Four fun rides from Scottsdale that feature great roads, scenery, and biker-friendly restaurants...

Book review: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy, by James Rickards

posted: March 9, 2025

tl;dr: A cogent warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence in the realms of finance and national security...

Locked out! part three: emails

posted: March 1, 2025

tl;dr: Corporations have introduced further impediments to reading emails...

Tracking email clicks

posted: February 22, 2025

tl;dr: A peak under the hood of email link clicks...

Tracking email opens

posted: February 13, 2025

tl;dr: A peak under the hood of email opens...